"The man promising the Portuguese people a Ferrari each if elected is Candidate Vieira, a fictional character created and played by Manuel Joao Vieira, a renowned local artist, musician and comedian who is running an official, yet satirical, campaign. In an unusual presidential election that features 11 candidates and with polls showing little ground between the top five candidates and no one expected to win outright in the first round Vieira's caricature campaign mirrors the growing anti-elite and anti-establishment sentiment taking over Portuguese politics."
"Besides the Ferraris-for-all pledge, Vieira has promised wine running from taps at every household, the creation of a city called Vieiropolis, where AI would free people from the need to work, an individual mother figure for everyone to help combat feelings of loneliness, and a skin-tone homogenisation treatment to darken and lighten skin tones to solve anti-migration sentiment."
Portugal's presidential race features 11 candidates and close polls among the top five, making an outright first-round victory unlikely and a runoff probable for the first time in 40 years. A satirical candidate, Candidate Vieira, is running an official campaign with extravagant pledges such as a Ferrari for every citizen. The satirical campaign includes promises of wine flowing from household taps, a city called Vieiropolis where AI frees people from work, an individual mother figure to combat loneliness, and a skin-tone homogenisation treatment aimed at migration tensions. The far-right Chega party, led by Andre Ventura, is narrowly ahead and anti-elite sentiment is rising.
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